Agriculture Quote by Tom Vilsack

[On being criticized for her serious expression:] I simply ache from smiling. Why are women expected to beam all the time? It's unfair. If…

— Queen Elizabeth II

I grew up in a city. My parents would think there was something wrong with America if they knew I was secretary of agriculture.

— Tom Vilsack

As female artists, we have to be constantly criticized for the way that we look, the way that we dress, on a whole other…

— Kali Uchis

Female-driven shows have to be every single thing and are constantly criticized in a way that male-driven shows are not.

— Abbi Jacobson

Having served as Secretary of Agriculture for eight years under a previous administration as well as Governor of Iowa, there is no doubt that…

— Bill Hagerty

I was the first woman elected as secretary of agriculture in Iowa.

— Patty Judge

The levels of poverty in 1933's rural America were unimaginable to us now. The 1933 Farm Bill, which introduced unprecedented government control over agriculture,…

— Debbie Stabenow

The [Democratic] party's become an urban party, and they don't get rural America. They don't get agriculture.

— Collin Peterson

I think we have not done a good job of explaining to people in rural America what is actually happening, number one. And, number…

— Tom Vilsack

And sometimes people don't realize that 90 percent of the persistent poverty counties are located in rural America.

— Tom Vilsack

There is more potential for economic growth in rural America than at any time in decades.

— Tom Vilsack

Over the past two years, the Obama Administration and USDA have worked to build a foundation for sustainable economic growth in rural America. At…

— Tom Vilsack